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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. Visit <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/">poetsasylum.org</a> to see what other poetic
events are taking place this weekend in the area. Here are a couple of
highlights.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Friday Night @ Worcester Storyteller</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Worcester Storytellers</u> meets on the second Friday of
each month at the Village Arts Gallery (1 Ekman Street, Worcester). The
reading starts at 8:00 p.m. There will be an open mic followed by a feature
from <b>Rushelle Frazier</b>, host of Worcester's newest weekly poetry reading.
Rushelle was also recently elected to the board of the Worcester County Poetry
Association.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Worcester Storytellers never charges a cover. They do ask you
to throw some money into the basket to support the artists who feature. For
more info please contact dave<a href="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=0142vZ8WHctS5HzS0kHjzbGQ==&c=tkV-A-OQyxR5XEE0wLbdiUKkWEHb0B3P8QLQPSkaQrM=" onclick="window.open('http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=0142vZ8WHctS5HzS0kHjzbGQ==&c=tkV-A-OQyxR5XEE0wLbdiUKkWEHb0B3P8QLQPSkaQrM=','', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=500,height=300'); return false;" title="Reveal this e-mail address ">...</a>@<a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a>.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, April 12th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/mbrown.jpg" alt="Michael Brown" title="Michael R. Brown will perform on April 12th!" align="right" hspace="5">
This week the <u>Poets' Asylum</u> welcomes <b>Michael Brown</b> back
to our stage. Brown has published poetry, fiction, travel articles and
columns in wide-ranging periodicals all over the world. His fourth book
of poetry, <i>The Confidence Man</i>, was published in 2006 by Ragged
Sky. In May, 2007, Brown and his partner Valerie Lawson moved to
Robbinston in Down East Maine, the easternmost point in the USA, where
they have been granted the editorial and publishing privileges for
<i>Off the Coast</i>, a poetry journal founded by Arlene and George V.
Van Deventer 14 years ago. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Join us at Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street,
Worcester). The reading starts at <b><font color="red">6:00 p.m.</font></b>
No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to support the feature.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fundraising News</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Slammaster Bill MacMillan has posted a letter in his blog
about the need for fundraising in support of the 2009 Worcester Slam Team.
You can read a copy of it in our blog, <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/poetsasylum/89408.html" target="_blank">http://community.livejournal.com/poetsa
sylum/</a>.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="red">Our short term goal is $1000 by April 26th. As
of April 5th $155 has been raised.</font></font></p>
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A PDF copy of the pledge sheet is available <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/2009_pledge_sheet.pdf">here</a> You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to
open and print the file. There are 2 pledge sheets per page. We really
appreciate any and all support the community is able to provide.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, April 5th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Four competitors took part in the <b>Blue Collar Slam</b> this
week sharing their poems on work or working. At the end of the math exercise
<u>Simone Beaubien</u> took the prize due to a massive time penalty against
Mike McGee. Thanks to everyone who came out and shared their words in
the open and slam.</font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum is in its eighteenth year of bringing the
best in Performance and Slam Poetry to Central Massachusetts and beyond.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Find us online at <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">http://poetsasylum.org/</a>.</font></p>
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